Picturesque English cottages and their doorway gardens (1905)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · Philadelphia : J.C. Winston · leaf 37
are these south country cot-tages: peaceful, picturesque, pleasant, with theirgraceful gables and jutting eaves, altogetherdelightful. Well sang a loyal Sussex poet: If I ever becpme a rich man. Or if ever I grow to be old,I will build a house with deep thatch To shelter me from the cold jAnd there… … o o sTo Q< n h<; COMO<!HHO u Chapter III ROOFS AND CHIMNEYS WHO has not sung of the glories andbeauties of a thatched roof? It is sadto relate that thatching is becoming a lostart. Straw is expensive and slates are cheap.Moreover, the straw which is injured andbroken by the threshing…
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